Yes

Near 400 g. !

Frew McMillan. With his two-handed forehand. And white golf hat. Bob Hewitt. Later imprisoned for raping and molesting twelve, thirteen, and fourteen-year-old females.

All in their mid thirties

@@johncasey9966 I know but it looks like grandads playing on a sunday morning.. Not the level of play though -they still showed good ability.

@@SuperHammaren Nastase has a big shout as the most naturally gifted player of all time. He's way past his best here, but still it's all so effortless for him. He glided around the court like a panther.

@@jeremyd1021 He was very gifted, with Borgs head and physique..

Pretty sure it is hardcourt

If it was carpet you wouldn't hear the bounce of the ball before serving ! @@davidjstone001

@@davidjstone001 raised wooden platform like a basketball court.

No Roche is 35 years here .... all 4 are mid 30s

1980?

just fantastic lol

I was at the Davis Cup tie in Bangalore which India won.

@@VSV659 Very nice! Where were the courts located? Cubbon Park?

@@kadambisridhar9365Was a young 11 year old from Coimbatore - came with the supplier of tennis balls for the tie - do not remember venue but did meet all the players and in fact was in the car which gave rides to fringe players like Shashi Menon and Jasjit Singh.

@@VSV659 Very interesting! BTW, I was 11 too at the time!! 3 years later I got to watch the Davis Cup tie (again vs Australia) in Madras. Very different results, this time!!

@@kadambisridhar9365Yes - Newcombe was in the team - a key difference even though he had lost the singles match in the previous round against Japan to a Toshiro Sakai

That's so cool that you were there

The host is a guy called Mike Williamson. *I thought * the expert was Geoff Masters but I could be wrong...

@@davidjstone001 ... but you also could be right ;-) Maybe Geoff Masters sounds a bit like Laver. I wasn't sure myself, that's why I asked.

@@Nocturnbandofficial At the end of the video the announcer notes who was doing the announcing

Well in 1980 most were, Borg was number 1 with one and Mcenroe 2nd.

@@SuperHammaren ... I'm not sure about "most", but Borg and McEnroe and some others were, that'S true.

@@SuperHammaren Borg, Mac, Vilas, Solomon, Clerc, Gerulaitis, Teltscher Wood, Gene Mayer Prince Graphite Oversize lol my coach made me use that frame. Connors still metal and Lendl of course, bringing the pace with the white Adidas graphite frame. "1980"

DAVID STONE DO YOU HAVE THE FINAL WIMBLENDON 1987 DOUBLES EMILIO SANCHEZ VS SERGIO CASAL VS KEN FLACK AND ROBERT SEGUSO? DO YOU PUT IN CHANNEL KZbin, DAVID STONE DO YOU ANSWER ABOUT THIS MATCH, THANK YOU

Have you ever played with those rackets? Everybody makes it out to be so difficult. I played with them. They're not that difficult to play with

@@theoriginalthinker9199 I agree, and obviously as we see here you could hit some amazing shots! That being said however, having learned and played with a wooden racquet, the old Dunlop Maxply fort, there is no way you can compare the old wooden racquets with the ease of play you get with these current models. The strings too, are almost akin to the banned spaghetti racquets, in terms of the crazy amount of spin you can put on the ball. That's why no one serves and volleys, maybe Dr. Evil and that 7 foot guy out of UCLA, but otherwise it's pretty much a no go. In the wooden racquet days almost everybody served and volleyed at Wimbledon, Mac could even do it at the French! They should have stuck with wood like the bats in MLB. Now everybody plays the same, you watch college tennis and it's cookie cutter: western forehand two handed backhand all day long. What a snooze compared to this doubles match. The artistry and subtlety is gone forever!

@@nastaseis1261 Yes, well said! The days of John McEnroe and ironically the OP's moniker, Ilie Nastase, are gone. These players were artistes with the wood. Now it's just who can blast the hardest and the longest.

You have to understand those small racquet heads were the norm. These players never knew anything else, so naturally you are good with them. Compare them to todays options and yes, they are difficult to play with.

Indeed. Imagine metal bats in baseball...the records would mean nothing.

When Arthur Ashe was watching in amazement and apparently enjoying Jimmy Connors 1991 US OPEN run someone reportedly said to him, "But I thought you said he was an asshole" to which Ashe replied "Yes, but he's my favorite asshole!"

@@nastaseis1261 Nastase would always take jabs at Ashe's race, but back then you could do things like that in a fun joking way. As much as he could be an asshole, Ashe once said, "I'll always like the guy." Also, Ashe was Connors Davis Cup coach, so he couldn't have too much animosity towards him.

I agree. There was also an incident where Nastase was Ashe’s doubles party and the tournament required the teams to wear identical outfits. So Nastase came out in full blackface, legs, arms etc And Ashe was laughing his ass off. No one was so easily offended, as we so often see today

Nastase and Ashe were close friends, he said that Ashe was the only player who would ask him about his country, or politics or things like that. They spent a long time together and they were almost neighbours in New York. If Ashe had an issue with his background, Nastase was in a similar situation. I read reports about Nastase where the journalists called him a gypsy, not to mention the names that the crowd had for him

@@alessandroalessandro6771 Agreed! It is sad how the world is. I have Romanian friends who were making fun of Nastase and calling him a gypsy, as if they were somehow superior Romanians! Its hard to fathom the ancient hatreds. Before Tito passed a land mass the size of Wyoming was one highly functioning country, at last count I believe it is now 7 countries! I met Nastase at a country club exhibition he was playing with Roy Emerson in the 1990's and I brought an old sports Illustrated with George Foreman on the cover for him to sign, The story inside was about the time he beat Borg 1-1 and 2 at the Masters final in Stockholm. He had pissed off Arthur, again, and Arthur walked off, which in the end was ruled a double default. So I open the magazine for Nastase to sign and he sees the picture of Ashe and his face became so sad and he said "Look how young Arthur looks" You could tell he loved and missed the guy!